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US President Donald Trump has started a new tweet-mania in which he lashed out at San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz for criticizing that the Trump administration is not properly handling the relief efforts of Hurricane Maria.

Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning to pick a fight with Cruz. He tweeted that mayor Cruz and “others in Puerto Rico” have “such poor leadership ability” that they cannot “get their workers to help.”

“The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump,” he wrote. Trump claimed that 10,000 federal workers were deployed in Puerto Rico and that they “have done an amazing job.”

Trump took a swing at CNN and NBC too, for their “fake” coverage of the relief effort.

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz has repeatedly criticized Trump’s administration for its uncoordinated relief efforts. She has told CNN the issue has not been the lack of supplies but a lack of coordination and inability to handle the logistics of aid distribution.

Hurricane Maria ripped through the island about a year ago, leaving it without power, food, water and medical supplies. Most of the relief supplies from the federal government have been left in the San Juan port untouched since the port took a lot of damage from the hurricane and that most of the workers have not yet showed up for work since the hurricane hit.

On Thursday, the acting secretary of homeland security Elaine Duke said the government’s efforts to help Puerto Rico out of the crisis is “a good news story.”

“I know it’s a hard storm to recover from,” she said. “But I know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane.” However, Cruz called her statement “irresponsible.”

“Damn it, this is not a good-news story,” she told CNN. “This is a people-are-dying story. This is a life-or-death story. This is a ‘there’s-a-truck-load-of-stuff-that-cannot-be-taken-to-people story.’ This is a story of a devastation that continues to worsen because people are not getting food and water. It is not a good-news story when people are dying, when they don’t have dialysis, when their generators aren’t working and their oxygen isn’t providing for them. Where is there good news here? … I’m really sorry, but you know when you have people out there dying, literally, scraping for food, where is the good news?” The mayor also attended a news conference at a distribution center on Friday and criticized the federal support for being slow and insufficient. She demanded Trump to take real action and up the efforts.

“We are dying here, and I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles,” she said. “Mayday! We are in trouble.” She has responded to Trump’s tweets by saying that the one goal was “saving lives.”

As critics condemned Trump for spending his time attacking NFL players for taking a knee during national anthem and overlooking the devastation of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, he announced on Twitter that he would visit Puerto Rico with first lady on Tuesday.

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